Nikki Giovanni, the iconic poet whose words gave voice to the voiceless during the civil rights movement and beyond, has died ...

Nikki Giovanni's high school classmates, sorority sisters and fellow civil rights activists gathered at her childhood church ...

Friends, sorority sisters, high school classmates and admirers filled the pews of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Knoxville, ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Giovanni, 81, held many titles. She was a ...

On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for ...

When ASU professor Dr. Neal Lester was an undergrad, he got assigned in a poetry class to write a paper interpreting the work ...

Renowned poet, activist, author and professor Nikki Giovanni was laid to rest Thursday at Spring Grove Cemetery.

Antonio Dickey/Getty Images It’s a weird and tragic irony that giants of the Black intellectual, artistic, and cultural traditions are passing away just ...

Amid the same Knoxville congregation Nikki Giovanni worshipped with as a child, a crowd of civil rights leaders, classmates, sorority sisters and friends gathered for a memorial tribute to the ...

Around the time Elon Musk launched his SpaceX quest to colonize Mars, Nikki Giovanni published a poem on what we should take there and what we should leave behind. Her 2002 work, “Quilting the B ...